re: Fact: F KING HATES Athletics

F (Cuc)King Alexander
F(uckyou) King Alexander

unfortunately his name is signed on my degree

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I understand that due to how the state constitution is structured, higher education is often one of the only areas in which funding can be cut. As such, when we're experiencing shortfalls, LSU is often forced to make tough decisions in the name of balancing the budget. How has Alexander shown himself to be successful in this area? Do you think his doom and gloom testimony in front of the legislature had any actual impact on LSU's treatment by the legislature? Were you in favor of his being placed in his position without any national search for candidates? On the academic side, what has Alexander done to benefit the university? Please site sources and links so that I can learn more. I genuinely want to see what his successes here have been

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I’m not saying he’s been good or bad for LSU. I’m just pointing out that technically he is correct when he says the purpose for college is academics and not sports.

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Yes. Damn those liberals for pushing education over ball in hoop skills. How dare they! Everyone knows that cancer and other diseases will be cured by scoring touchdowns and not by a bio engineer in a lab. 

Smart thinking there, bud. As you post on a message board on the internet through a device that was all made possible BECAUSE OF MATH AND SCIENCE.

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Lol at you thinking anyone is going to cure cancer or many other diseases. No money in the cure son, only in the treatment.

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Lol at you thinking anyone is going to cure cancer or many other diseases. No money in the cure son, only in the treatment.

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What do you expect when you monetize healthcare?

Cpt bengal, is this you on the right?

Yeah go back to his prior public comments. He hates college Athletics .. also thinks there should be a cap on coach’s pay

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If there was a mathlete board, I would post in it.

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There are free message board software platforms available on the Internet. What’s stopping you from creating an Lsu mathletes board?

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You’re still missing the point.

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I’m really not.

The point is you’re running around on your high horse in here bitching about people caring more about athletics than academics, while your very presence on this website indicated you care more about athletics than academics.

Pretty straight forward actually.

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College IS about higher education and NOT about sports.

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College is about developing yourself as a person. That development encompasses academics and social life. At a school like Lsu, the social life component plays a larger role than at the average college, and athletics plays a huge role in that social life development.

People like you that insist on denying that fact while doing nothing to change it, if not contributing to it directly yourself, are just wasting everyone elses time.

Yep. I sent him an email once asking if he thinks anyone would ever mention LSU if the athletic department ceased to exist. He sent back a reply about how the university needed to work as hard on its academic brand as it does on its athletic brand. And went on about coaches salaries rising faster than teacher’s salaries. He 100% has a little disdain for the athletic department.

Yes, Academics is very important and yes, coaches salaries are rising much faster than teacher salaries....but to use a quote from the movie "The Program".." When was the last time 100 thousand people showed up to watch a kids do a chemistry experiment"....Successful coaches produce successful teams...and those teams fill stadiums.....

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He’s pencil pushing academic that sees athletics as a distraction from the true mission of the university.

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While I dislike F King, he's completely correct with this assessment. The phrase student athlete is a joke, the NCAA is corrupt, and the SEC Headquarters favors Bama.

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What? No it doesn’t, dumbass. I can like both academics AND sports. Jesus fricking Christ.

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It does actually. You’ve admitted you are posting on here, not on the Lsu mathletes board. The fact that you don’t understand this makes you the dumbass, not me.

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It is “part of” the college experience at many colleges.

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Academics is also just “part of” the college experience.

At Lsu and some other schools, the “part” of the experience that athletics plays is much greater.

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Education is THE REASON colleges were formed.

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Hundreds of years ago. Good things don’t evolve or change in that time span.

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Ask yourself this. Are there colleges that don’t play any sports? Are there colleges that only play sports?

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Ask yourself this. If Lsu cancelled a football season like fking asked for, what would that have done for university revenue? If Lsu was ranked #140 in football like they are in academics, what would that do for enrollment?

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Why are you so pissed about someone valuing education? That’s, rather odd behavior.

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I don’t care about you valuing education. I’m pointing out the hypocrisy in you complaining about other people not valuing education while posting on an athletics message board.